Genus Rattus Fischer, 1803

Museums

Regional Maps

• Rattus Fischer, G. 1803. Das Nationalmuseum der Naturgeschichte zu Paris. Von seinem ersten Ursprunge bis zu seinem jetzigen Glanze. Zweiter Band. Schilderung der naturhistorischen Sammlungen. Frankfurt am. Main : F. Esslinger 426 pp., 4 pls. [128] [as Ruttus].

  Type species:

   Mus decumanus Pallas, 1779 by monotypy ((Thomas, O., 1916) mistakenly identified Mus rattus as the type species of Rattus, see (Hollister, N., 1916)).
• Epimys Trouessart, E.-L. 1881. Catalogue des mammifères vivants et fossiles. Rodentia (suite). Bulletin de la Société Etude Science de Angers 10: 105-212 [117] [originally made available as a subgenus of Mus Linnaeus, 1758 (as Mus Linnaeus, 1766) nom. nov. for Rattus Fischer, 1803].
• Christomys Sody, H.J.V. 1941. On a collection of rats from the Indo-Malayan and Indo-Australian regions With descriptions of 43 new genera, species and subspecies. Treubia 18: 255--325 [nom. nud.].

  Type species:

   Rattus macleari Thomas, 1887 by original designation.

  Secondary source:

   Musser, G.G. & Carleton, M.D. 1993. Family Muridae. pp. 501-756 in Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D-A. M. (eds). Mammal species of the world: A taxonomic and geographic reference. Second Edition. Washington : Smithsonian Institute 1206 pp. [649].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Mahoney, J.A. in Walton, D.W. (ed.) 1988. Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp. [Date published 13/Apr/1988] [180]
• Musser, G.G. & Carleton, M.D. 1993. Family Muridae. pp. 501-756 in Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D-A. M. (eds). Mammal species of the world: A taxonomic and geographic reference. Second Edition. Washington : Smithsonian Institute 1206 pp. [649]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT) ; ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Riverina (RIV) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Central Ranges (CR), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater, Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal, W plateau
  • Queensland: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau
• Hawaii
• New Zealand
• Papua New Guinea
• Solomon Islands

Neotropical Region

• Easter Islands

Oriental Region

• Bangladesh
• Burma (= Myanmar)
• Indonesia
• Malaysia
• Philippines
• Thailand

Distribution References

General References

Musser, G.G. & Carleton, M.D. 1993. Family Muridae. pp. 501-756 in Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D-A. M. (eds). Mammal species of the world: A taxonomic and geographic reference. Second Edition. Washington : Smithsonian Institute 1206 pp. [649] (considers Christomys to be a nom. nud.)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Feb-2023		10-Dec-2010	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)